Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-05-18

mae Jaw students ont al ten realty
think he has the making~ Ia him of n
good lawyer of the second rank. 20
Just like YOU. old man. You are bet
ter than millions. better than wine, better
than ---
No not woman said he softly, and
hV the shine uf hj> ewes knew that he
was tA!nklug ri = small tyrant who be
grudged him to most ot his old friends
and did not scruple tn tell me 100 my very
face that she did not cafe he should see
much OF his bachelor aC luaintanCes any
more
A. We walked toward Wavcrley place |
could not help IL conjecture or two as {"
the reason for his mysterious conduct
Was he IN exile because of II. vulgar
Scrapt. or through quarrel with his own
family Was he Tilted. had he been hope
lr->ly in debt. OF i..id he involved himself
with a woman whom he discovered II i'm
possible 10 marry
Raymond insisted Should come 10 his
apartments. his wife. being absent doing
penance al Il family dinner. hut expected
to return soon When she entered was
greeted with more cordiality than ever
before. and among other things alluded 10
the young EmEIiNhman.
Il don't like him. she remarked.
"Aud pray, why not exclaimed
"Hc i intelligent. well read. quick and
good talher, handsome in his way-and
worships your husband
Il don like him. said Mrs. Raymond,
taking up her knitting with the most com
plaCent air, a. il Il don't ike him
settled the matter logically psychologist
ally and sociuiogically for good and all.
Raymond beame,i down on his wife and
remarked:
She thinks his fiber is weak-isn't that
the expression, my dear
Mrs. Raymond set her small sharp
curved mouth
'NO, my dear. that is your expression
and, turning 20 me: There are points in
your character l do not like, but on the
whole You will do. At any rate you are
not weak. If YOU did wrong you would
expect and abide by the consequences.
But this young Mr.-Mr whatever he
chooses just now To call himself must
say the only reason for his existence that
know Of is 20 make me prouder than
ever of my husb--''
She was not allowed TO finish, and as
an old friend Of both, l turned 10 the
photograph album until little scuttie
WAS over.
On leaving the apartments ! took
walk, as i my wont before going to bed.
Notwithstanding the fearful condition of
the streets, making long loop about the
square through Fourth street and Broad
way. Ii had cleared overhead and the
moon was out. As | turned into Wayer-
ley place ! saw figure at the side en-
trance Of the New York hotel whom |
took for - man much the worse fer drink.
and paid little heed 10. Bnt Just as |
passed looked up and thought it WAS the
young Englishman we had dined with. |
even heSitated hut the bowed head,
trembling hands, and uncertain knees of
the figure belonged TO u much older man,
and us he seemed TO be only steadying
himself 10 enter the hotel, il occasiOned
me only Shrug of pity and IA sigh. |
glanced at the windows Of the hotel and
wondered what furthur discoveries in the
matter Of American types my high nosed
young English gentlewoman had made
since she submitted me To her eXainina
tion. She chung 10 my memory for some
reason, rs If she has something 10 say 10
Inc, some inquiry 10 make OF far larger
importance than the whereabouts Of 4
hotel.
As | rose the stairs 10 my rooms the
youths face and tal& returned Ia me. also
what Raymond : wife had said, and then
his speech about suicides. and | said 10
myself: Anyhow, II man 81 light hearted
and Straightforward lunking can have
nothing crialinal on hs conscience"
When fell ASLEEP it must have been
about midnight, and as | dozed uff it &C
CURED 10 me rs odd that. while | lay on
my left side locking eastward, the young
Englishman aud tn. two travellers | had
met must be Just nnv in one line with me
west and east. for the tower in which he
slept ruse exactly between me and the
New York hotel. What uOnsense'' WAS
my last waking thought.
| might have slept ten minutes OF n
week. when my eyes opened The great
strangely white; doubtless, it was the
moon that had stolen through the west
window over my bed and now shOne
almost level through the room-that was
it. But no Through the door there was
depth of whiteness like glancing into
tunnel lined with porcelain and AT its end
stood i'll profile still whits figure, with
one hand pointed slightly downward.
figure recalled some one had seen some
where In II moment it was gone, and |
closed my eyes with u resolve not to forget
that had as il were, caught in the actu-
ality Of an halluciuation a dream such as
weaveS itself out of random occurrences
Of the day.
Asleep in a moment, lay-how long,
suddenly ! was awak" again The light
IL.
but just across the room at my door
stood the same figure, the features not
perfectly distinct, but the flowing hair and
night dress unmistakable. Was IT the
young woman had met: But what look!
have seen actresses that sent the ChillS
through one, and have seen people in
grief, but this face froze the roots OF ones
being il WAS so terrible in its striving 10
ext ain something that might be too hOr-
rible 10 utier--its figure was 50 torn by
the effort TO express by gesticulation what
,ts tongue could not or would not i'm
part,
Rubbing my eyes as | raised myself in
bed, the apparition was gone. and 10y the
broad light If the setting moon all the
familiar pictures and odds AMI ends uf lhr
room smiled on me so serenely that fell
back again treasured
Yet. / thought: Can it be possible that
something is happening 10 that girl, who
ever, wherever she may he, or 10 some
one she loves, And has her spirit been
able 10 break the bounds OF matter and
call for help: How many persons believe
that between certain minds and minds the
will power can under favorable C.rCun-
stances exert itself through space, Then
| reviewed the scientific men who nave
given whole or partial adhesion TO the
claims vi psychologists held in bad rtpUte
by science generally, and recalled how
universally ly-in all parts Of the world. in
all nations, at all epochs--action Of this
Kind ha, been believed in by thousands Of
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